Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems

This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic. An accessible introduction to the topic that assumes no background in circuits. Starts by presenting applications, which successfully motivates students learn the theory. An appropriate presentation for computer engineers and computer scientists students. Includes extensive web material for students and instructors with dynamic, illustrative applets for most topics. Incorporates lab material that ties the theory of the text into real-world applications of signals and systems. Based on many years of successful class-testing at the authors' university. This book is designed for students taking an introductory signals and systems course, as well as engineers looking for a fresh coverage of this important topic.

Edward A. Lee is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at U.C. Berkeley. His research interests center on design, modeling, and simulation of embedded, real-time computational systems. He is the Director of the Ptolemy project. He is the co-author of four books and numerous papers. His bachelor's degree (B.S.) is from Yale University (1979), his masters (S.M.) from MIT (1981), and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1986). From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the Advanced Data Communications Laboratory. He is a founder of BDTI, Inc., where he is currently a Senior Technical Advisor, and has consulted for a number of other companies. He is a fellow of the IEEE, was a NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineering Education.

Pravin Varaiya is the James Fife Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of Califonia PATH, a multi-university program of research in Intelligent Transportation Systems. From 1975 to 1992 he also was Professor of Economics at Berkeley. He has taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories during 1962-63. Dr. Varaiya has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He is a Fellow of IEEE. His areas of research are communication networks, transportation systems, and electric power systems. He has published more than 200 papers in technical journals. He is on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part C; Discrete Event Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications; Journal of Economic Dynamics &Control; Birkhauser series on Progress in Systems and Control Theory.